Weathering

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Christian Jil Repalda Benitez

Abstract

Short lyric poem meditating on "love... [and] uselessness of / its implications," considered from the scale of geological time, beside, for instance, a "boulder being itself on the face / of weathering."

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Fiction & Poetry
Author Biography

Christian Jil Repalda Benitez, Ateneo de Manila University

Christian Jil R. Benitez is a faculty member of the Department of Filipino, Ateneo de Manila University, where he graduated with an AB-MA in Filipino Literature. Hailed as the Poet of the Year 2018 by the Commission on the Filipino Language, his work as a scholar primarily moves around the tropical rendition of time as panahon, with critical attention to the ecological, mythological, and discursive.